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title: Dummling did not think long, but went straight into the forest, wher… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dummling did not think long, but went straight into the forest, where in the same place there sat a man who was tying up his body with a strap, and making an awful face, and saying: ‘I have eaten a whole ovenful of rolls, but what good is that when one has such a hunger as I? Who acts: Dummling, sam
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 50

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Dummling did not think long, but went straight into the forest, where in the same place there sat a man who was tying up his body with a strap, and making an awful face, and saying: ‘I have eaten a whole ovenful of rolls, but what good is that when one has such a hunger as I?

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**Who acts:** Dummling, same place, man, I, one · **What happens:** not think, go, sit, tie up, make, say · **To what, where:** forest, man, body, awful face, whole ovenful · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummling, same place, man, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:48:50
# text = Dummling did not think long, but went straight into the forest, where in the same place there sat a man who was tying up his body with a strap, and making an awful face, and saying: ‘I have eaten a whole ovenful of rolls, but what good is that when one has such a hunger as I?
1	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	tying	tie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	strap	strap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
42	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	ovenful	ovenful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	rolls	roll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	54	nsubj	_	_
54	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	conj	_	_
55	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	cop	_	_
56	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
57	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	59	advmod	_	_
58	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	advcl	_	_
60	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	62	det:predet	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	_
63	as	as	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Dummling |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past |  |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **sit** | past | the same place | a man |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme |
| 4 | **tie up** | past · progressive | a man | Dummling's body |  |  |  | with a strap | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient with strap=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | Dummling *not said here* | a awful face |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset face=Product |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Dummling *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **eat** | present · perfect | I | a whole ovenful of rolls |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ovenful=Patient |
| 8 | **is** | present | one |  |  |  |  | as I; have *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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